badly written exams

[story645]

Engineering exams should not be insanely difficult for incredibly stupid reasons: if an engineering exam is about %95 memorization, something's horribly wrong. So yeah, that's my electromagnetics exam in a nutshell. It gets bonus points 'cause the professor is a cheating nut, yet doesn't seem to get that nothing encourages cheating quite so much as

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[frankieb_sq87]

*hugs* Sorry the exam was wonky. HOw do you think you did?

[story645]

got it back, did horribly, don't really care cause:
a) I didn't cheat (and know my class average would be a lot worse if everyone else was the same)
b) didn't study by memorizing the damn book
c)the prof drops one grade, and while the other two exams are harder, it's rumored that the content is actually conceptual and thematically together and therefore easier to memorize

[dome36]

Hope you did well in your exam!

Dome

[story645]

Did badly, see above. Don't mind though

[sleepingfingers]

*hugs* I hate it when professors give exams that I personally think have very little to do with what the crux of the materials is about. :( I hope you did all right on the exam, though.

And I hope that all of your other classes are going fine.

[story645]

I don't mind it so much for being irrelevant, more so 'cause it doesn't actually test comprehension of the material. Seriously, being able to remember values off a table of conductivity has nothing to do with understanding conductivity. I did will on most of the problems that actually required knowing something, so (see above) I don't really mind my bad grade.

[kerosinkanister]

Those types of classes are always really really lame. I had a ME like that.

But I still think the robot is cool. I'd like to build one someday, though I don't know for what or why.

[story645]

The class is even worse than that: it's a read off bad slides posted on website type class, and the exams are straight off the slides/book/hw-so there's no reason what-so-ever to go to class, 'cept the 10 points for participation (but the prof doesn't take attendance and the class is packed with guys who all look alike, hell I could probably win points for showing up 'cause I'm one of three girls and the sole white one).

I like robots, I'm just fed up with the nonsense involved with being team leader and having to work with another team, whose leader doesn't seem to comprehend the relative importance or difficulty of tasks. And she's a bit of a control freak.

[semi_hitokiri]

Well, it's really good that you were able to comprehend the material because that's the essence of the subject. Even if you did badly on the first exam, you know that you need to know for the second exam which I suppose isn't that hard to do because I think grasping the concepts underneath is harder than memorizing facts. One of my friends was going over limits and I knew all the formulas and shortcuts to get around limits but he asked me but what is a limit, what theorems are important to grasp it, etc.. and I felt that understand the material is vital because anyone can memorize facts but if you are able to the explain then you know it well.

Ironically, I'm taking World Humanities and there are mostly Juniors and Seniors in my class. The museum you listed seems rather interesting. Also, I thought because you're doing a double major that you don't need liberal arts for Engineering because you're other major could fulfill liberal arts credits.

[story645]

Also, I thought because you're doing a double major that you don't need liberal arts for Engineering because you're other major could fulfill liberal arts credits.
Honors screws with everything. I've gotta take their courses for my liberaral arts, and some honors courses are required for the psych core.